Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts

A still from *Having a Ball*, one of three circus-themed e-cards by Kristine Ng.For the estimated 7 to10 million blind and visually impaired Americans, the Internet has proven to be the most powerful — and most empowering — tool since Braille. Widely available software programs such as JAWS for Windows and Windows-Eyes can read aloud online newspapers and magazines and other previously inaccessible materials. Yet as bandwidth and memory improve, businesses have increasingly sought to drive customers to glitzy, graphics-heavy Web sites that are more difficult, if not impossible, for blind users to navigate. Thanks to a group of senior design students at Washington University in St. Louis, blind and visually impaired Web users can now experience some of the Internet’s increasingly expansive potential. The 23 students — design, illustration and advertising majors in the School of Art — have created some of the first Web sites showcasing new accessibility components of Macromedia Flash MX, the increasingly popular authoring tool for Web interfaces, interactive video, Web-based games, streaming music and other multimedia content.

Stephen Murray, a leading authority on medieval art and architecture and founder of the Visual Media Center at Columbia University, will speak on “Medieval Architecture and the New Media: Representing and Creating Humanistic Content” at 6 p.m. Nov. 18 at the Gallery of Art. A reception for Murray will immediately follow the talk. A specialist […]

Photo by Mary ButkusTwo benches honoring architecture Dean Cynthia Weese were installed recently outside of Givens Hall.

Photo by Joe AngelesMore than 1,000 people gathered April 14 for the groundbreaking of the Sam Fox Art Center’s Kemper Art Museum and Earl E. and Myrtle E. Walker Hall.

Courtesy imageDrawings by students from the School of Architecture’s summer Study Abroad Program are on view in Givens Hall through Nov. 30.

Photo by Kevin LowderBob Hansman hosted a free a bus tour of St. Louis neighborhoods and a subsequent discussion of issues relating to community development.

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, known for his pioneering use of low-cost materials such as paper and bamboo, will speak on “Works and Humanitarian Activities” for the School of Architecture and Visiting East Asian Professionals Program in Arts & Sciences at 7 p.m. Feb. 29. The event is free and open to the public and will […]

“Dean Weese has made an indelible mark on the growth and strength of the School of Architecture,” Chancellor Wrighton says.

Registration for the School of Architecture’s 2004 Steedman Fellowship in Architecture International Design Competition is open.

To receive the grant, the University must raise an additional $4.4 million in outright gifts and pledges.